From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 3 03:55:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA16983 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 03:55:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA16976 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 03:55:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA08531; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 22:25:26 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611031155.WAA08531@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: /usr/obj size To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 22:25:26 +1030 (CST) Cc: mark@quickweb.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Warner Losh" at Nov 2, 96 11:49:36 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > > I'm very happy with my JAZ drive, but it is a little on the slow > side. About 70% as fast as my Quantum Prodrive 1225, near as I can > tell. When I got mine, the ZIP drives were $199 and the JAZ drives > had just dropped to $399 internal so I figured 10x the storage for > 2x the price was hard to say no to. I get about 1.2M/sec reading and a bit over 3M/sec writing (?!) using iozone on mine (80/8192 on a 24M p83, reasonably -current, NCR PCI). For a 1G portable floppy drive, it's quite respectable. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[